Fight for national Christian broadcasting continues

THE CONTINUING fight to get the British government to relent in its banning of national Christian broadcasting received an unexpected boost in April when Daily Telegraph columnist and editor of The Spectator Boris Johnson wrote an article in support of Christians receiving licences to broadcast nationally. Johnson wrote, "Are we really such adolescents that we must be protected from Christianity on the radio, in case it should corrupt us when the authorities are perfectly happy for us to be pelted with advertisements for everything from pensions to Sunny Delight. No, the real reason for a national ban is nothing to do with the alleged pernicious effect of religious radio and everything to do with a de haut en bas establishment leeriness of Christianity, and especially of evangelical Christianity." He concluded, "Shouldn't they be allowed their own show? ...to ban a Christian station is censorship." CR

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